that the Sequins had original jurisdiction, but lost it after three pitched battles with

the Pequots. There is a strange mixing up of tribes in the story, and especially in that of the original sale, in which the

" After the overthrow 149, 150, 157. of Sequin, the Pequots advanced along the coast and obliged several tribes to pay tribute, and sailed across the sound and extorted tribute from the eastern inhabit ants of Sewan-Hackey. De Forests History Indians of Connecticut, 61.

i,

Ante, p. 41. The chieftaincy must Ante, p. 41. have borne some other name, but what is not known. Among the Moravians they were known as the Wequehachkes, or the people of the hill country.

Governor Lovelace, in a letter to Go vernor Winthrop of Massachusetts, Dec. 29, 1869 (New Tork Assize Record], u I believe I can resolve writes your doubt concerning what is meant by the The Highland Indians amongst us. :

Wappingers and

TVickeskeck,

etc.,

have

It is always been reckoned so." entirely possible that the tribal name was Wequehachke, or Wickeskeck, or and tkat Wappingcrs is

PPeckquaesgeek,

local. In all however, and in the recognition of Nimham, they were

their official

relations,

known as the Wappingers.

THE INDIAN TRIBES

on the north to Manhattan island on the south. What their family clans were on the north is not known, nor where their

On Van der Donck's map three of their villages or

capital.

castles are located

on the south side of the Mawenawasigh, 01